Pre-Scan, select, and revisit areas within a scan

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This request is really out there :sweat_smile:
But I would find it extremely useful for my workflow.

I would love the ability to do some sort of low-res scan of a large area. Then be able to “tag” certain areas within the scene. {wall, furniture, cameras, tripods, chairs, sky, ignore} etc

Then with this pre-scan setup; I could capture data in the best way for the specified area.

Most of the time a wall, could be a mesh and the furniture could be a splat. The ability to mix and match would be great!

Or even after processing I find that my splat scanning did well for everything except one object in the scene. It would be cool to “lock down” the scan and just rescan one portion of it.

Maybe in the pre-scan I drop “pins” at certain places to define areas of no interest to me. (I do a lot of film set scanning)

From my understanding when scanning there is no “3D coordinate system” in play? No (0, 0, 0) in the XYZ.

Sometimes when I scan and I revisit an area (in the same scan time) I get fine results and others I get real bad drift.

Maybe implementing april tags could be an interesting idea? Set those outside of my desired scan zone.

Anyways, I’m curious if anyone else would find this useful? I think it could be cool to rescan an object at a high resolution but leave a giant wall at a lower resolution

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Hi Drew,

Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback!

While there is an Area mode for scanning, what you’re detailing sounds more like a way to create 3D scenes using a combination of scans and scan types.

For something like that, Niantic offers Niantic Studio/8th Wall and Niantic Spatial.

Niantic Studio natively supports the SPZ format that splats here in Scaniverse export and offers a Discover page to quickly share your scenes and AR projects with others.

Niantic Spatial is an augmented-reality development kit (ARDK) for the Unity game engine. Spatial has semantic segmentation and object detection which identifies objects and elements within a real-world scene such as the sky, cameras, walls, and furniture as you’re suggesting.

Are you currently working on a project or just suggesting a new way to share compositions of scans?

Kind regards,
Maverick L.